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April 2007 - Posts

• Orcas beta 1 First impressions

  I wish to thank everyone who waited to download the Beta 1 until after I finnished downloading it. The servers seemed to be relatively responsive. Anyway, I was able to successfully download and install the VPC image. Here's my initial impression of the Read More... Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 2:42 AM by jwooley | 2 Comments

• Orcas revised samples

  One of the great things about the LINQ project has been the amount of demos and samples which Microsoft has released to support it and to demonstrate how to use some of the features. There are literally hundreds of samples in both VB and C# to draw from. Read More... Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:32 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments

• Orcas Beta 1 Ships

  Today, Soma annouced that they have just shipped Beta 1 of Orcas! The home page for this drop is http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx . If you want, you can download the bits at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=36B6609E-6F3D-40F4-8C7D-AD111679D8DC&displaylang=en Read More... Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:48 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• ThinqLinq in Alabama and Atlanta

  Tonight I'm finishing off my three city tour demonstrating my ThinqLinq website. The tour started in Mobile, Alabama at the fourth Alabama code camp . They had a great turnout considering how new the group was and the fact that there were flood and tornado Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:01 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments

• Live from Redmond webcast series

  If you're like me and have been bitten by the LINQ/Orcas bug, make sure to check out the "Live from Redmond" webcast series. The VB team has put together a series of presentations around LINQ and Orcas to give you an inside view as to what they are doing Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:18 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments

• LINQ articles on MSDN2

  When the previous LINQ CTP's were released, it was relatively easy to find the documentation. As LINQ is being "productized" into Orcas, finding the appropriate overview documentation has become much more difficult. While researching something for our Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:31 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• LNQ to SQL with Inheritance

  Working on a side project extremely late last night, I found myself trying to count sheep. In particular I was interested in separating the males from the females. Using good OOP principals, I figured I could create a base class "Sheep" and inherit from Read More... Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:41 AM by jwooley | 2 Comments